The Phytology medicine garden has been sown with over thirty-two varieties of indigenous plants common to the streets of London and urban ecosystems across the country. Generally regarded as ‘weeds’, each plant has been selected for its historic and on-going use in phytotherapy and traditional medicine... MORE...

Across the summer months a host of local residents will cook-up a variety of shared meals using fresh ingredients from the Phytology medicine garden. Each shared lunch features a talk by a resident researcher or guest speaker. MORE...

Matthew Beach is Geographer-In-Residence throughout the summer of 2018. He is researching the historical, material, and caring geographies rooted within its participatory art projects. Specifically, the medicinal garden and bat houses projects — as embodied case studies of the growing interdisciplinary discourse around caring in a more-than-human world. MORE...

Help us understand how city living is affecting mental wellbeing.
By collecting real-time data about the characteristics of your urban environment and your state of mind, we will be able to understand how different aspects of the urban environment affect mental wellbeing. MORE...

The Alternative School of Economics is a collaboration between artists Ruth Beale and Amy Feneck. It is both an artwork and a way of working; it links artist practice with self-education as a way to study economics, creating a framework for investigating political, social and cultural issues. MORE...

During the summer, we will be co-creating a range of new composting systems at the Bethnal Green Nature Reserve, including a wormery, thermal compost pile and a much needed accessible compost toilet... MORE...

As a sound artist, radio producer, community facilitator and educator, Lucia Scazzocchio has been researching and broadcasting hyper-local social contexts, placing individual stories into wider social contexts... MORE...

Phytology’s Gardener’s Report, written by horticulturist Gabby Boraston, offers a behind the scenes look at the Phytology site. Each report captures Gabby’s personal interaction with the space, but also provides an invaluable record of the site’s diverse plant and wildlife.MORE...

In 2017/18 the Phytology team are launching a series of new bat sanctuary projects across the East End - extending the natural resources of the Bethnal Green Nature Reserve to accommodate an urban bat population...

Lucy McLauchlan's large-scale monochromatic paintings are at home within galleries and museums just as they are covering multi-story building across Europe, gigantic billboards in China, huts of The Gambia, Italian water towers, Norwegian lighthouses, car parks of Detroit, to the depths of abandoned subway tunnels in New York... MORE...

Sam Wallman's graphic essay and billboard works explore the roots and contemporary manifestations of private property and territorialism, the concept of non-spaces, and everyday resistances to these ideas... MORE...